WordPress times out in the network but nowhere else
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I have a weird problem that has me going in circles. Here’s what’s going on:
On Friday, late afternoon, we went live with a new website. The new website is running WordPress (old one did not). We have been working on it in house for 18 months with no problems accessing the site from within the network or outside.
I got in to the office at 6:30am and worked on the site (some last minute content changes) and everything was fine. When people got in at about 8 (we’re a school district) and started using the site (it is the home page for every computer in the district), the site stopped working. When we tried to access it, it timed out.
Now, here’s the weird part. It only crashed WITHIN the network. When I remoted into my home machine and tested it from there, it worked just fine. This has been going on for a couple of days now.
We brought up a copy of the site in house in the meantime and pointed our internal DNS to the in house copy. The external users are still pointing to the site at the host. They continue to be fine. When everyone is pointing to the internal site, a few of us overrode the DNS with a hosts entry. It worked just fine. When we switched DNS back to the hosted version, we couldn’t access it again in house.
We have whitelisted all ports and traffic on the firewall. We are bypassing the filter. The ISP says they are not blocking anything. The host (Hostgator) says they are not blocking our IP. Honestly, we think we have eliminated just about everything.
The site is running WordPress 4.7.2. All plugins are up to date. The following plugins are installed and activated:
Duplicate Plug and Post
Footer Text,
Header and Footer Scripts
iThemes Security
PHP Code for Posts
Remove Title
Replace Image
Smart Slider 3
User Role Editor
WP Widget Bundle
WP-Optimize
WPBakery Visual ComposerIn addition we have a few plugins in that are not activated:
Akismet
Comet Cache
Regenerate Post Permalinks
Reset WP
WordPress ImporterIf anyone has any thoughts on this, I would appreciate it. This has certainly been driving me nuts.
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